When first approached about the Band of Artists website in Autumn 2011, I was asked to provide design and content services from a mere verbal description of the organization’s vision. Band of Artists’ first formal production, Intersection, was still being conceptualized, and limited material was available to brand the organization. Organization founder Sutie Madison wanted a site that was clean and professional, yet “edgy” and reflective of their mission. After observing Intersection first hand in December, I knew just the “edge” to provide Band of Artists for their formal site launch in Spring 2012. The homepage of the site symbolizes and acts as an analogy to the tics that a person with Tourette Syndrome experiences.

Enhancements & Accomplishments

Custom jQuery animation and motion effects on featured photo to symbolize the tics Tourettes patients exhibit.

Referred through a mutual acquaintance, independent interior kitchen and cabinet designer Ellyn Barr had a vision for her website but needed a customized and user-friendly Content Management System (CMS). Having reviewed the client’s content and desired site functionality, I recommended utilizing the Drupal 7 platform with an Omega based responsive theme. The CMS would provide the ability to customize content types to be used repeatedly or selectively across the site and the Omega child theme would allow for the same content to be rendered across desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. The color scheme reflects a piece of garment that inspired the DragonFly logo for the independent contractor- but was not a quick and easy matching process. After an exhaustive one-on-one review and testing of colors, color gradients, fonts, and font styles, this customized site was finally ready for launch; deploying within 6 weeks from conception.

Enhancements & Accomplishments

Drupal 7 Responsive Design utilizing an Omega Custom Child Theme, allowing the site to be cross-browser and cross-device compatible

In the Fall of 2011, the owner of Creative Educational Options was seeking someone to help take over managing her website- namely provide some occasional static HTML edits. However, after learning more about my background and experience, was very interested in providing a facelift to the site while incorporating some search engine optimization suggestions.

After having launched the initial brochure site in June 2011, our next phase of this project entailed a full CMS based launch. The store management wanted the ability to post announcements for special promotions and upcoming events, post pictures and follow-up commentary about past events, and host a forum for its bookclub to share ideas and converse.

Enhancements & Accomplishments

Complete migration of site to Drupal 6

Custom content type and CCK fields for notable quotes slider- management can add their own slideshow images and quotes without having to manipulate code!

Upcoming Events & Event Archive views and blocks

Book club blog forum for members to pose questions and answers, share deep thoughts and new insights

Customized theme with breadcrumb navigation

End-User documentation for content management with Drupal for this site

The owners of this book store and gaming center reached out to me to help create a formal brochure website for their store, having begun a marketing campaign in local papers and online with both Facebook and a MailChimp sponsored newsletter. Working under some basic design guidelines and preferences from the owners, I was given full creative license to draft up their site, review and launch it in June 2011.

The company president was looking to enhance the site, making it more search engine friendly, update cross-browser compatibility, and improve load time and performance. Utilizing tools such as PageSpeed and Firebug, as well as analyzing various Google Analytics and Bing Webmaster reports, we decided to proceed with a site-wide revision and its relaunch in June 2011.

This independent bookseller opened its doors in October 2010. As the business steadily grew, I approached the owner about building a website for the store, and formally producing a logo for their marketing literature. Excited about the prospects of taking their business to the next level, they signed me up!

Project Highlights

Incorporates theme of original logo (inkwell and quill)

Color scheme reflects the ethos of the many books available

Original slogan captures the mission of the business- to be a welcome environment for bibliophiles, as well as the casual reader and game enthusiast

In the Spring of 2011, the King Dry network continued its expansion by formally adding plumbers to its network. The “PlumbingServicesAndRepairs.com” domain was launched to represent this new division of the company.

In addition to relaunching the several existing King Dry domains, there were also registered domains that were still in need of content. The “WaterDamageBasementCleanup.com” domain was launched to represent the home water damage property restoration division of the company.

Project Highlights

Original CSS template and design to resemble a house

Photos represent common household causes of water damage, as well as their relative locations in a house

Providing a fresh perspective to marketing with print media & digital content, recommending and implementing strategies to streamline business processes, engineering custom solutions to business process challenges, authoring and editing industry-specific original content for clientele and search engines, and small business IT consultation services for networks, operating systems, software applications, and cloud services.